Dear Friends, Hot off the press! Counterpoint Press is just now releasing another edition of Trace with a new preface from me. I'm deeply grateful that Trace takes a second breath with this new edition! ...
"Sometimes a book finds me. I know you have your own tales to tell, but occasionally I like to share the path by which a particularly fine work made its way into my hands and, subsequently, my life. This story begins in October during the...
In traveling to the west coast for three back-to-back readings in Seattle, WA, then Point Reyes then Oakland, CA, I also realized that I had come home. Rick Simonson of the Elliott Bay Book Company and Stacie Ford-Bonnelle of the Northwest African American Museum graciously...
The first out-of-town launch reading from my new book Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape took place on November 16th at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC, in the "flagship" location on 14th and V Streets, NW. What an uplifting and inspiring evening for...
My new book Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape officially goes out into the world on November 10th. The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA, is hosting the launch party and my first reading that evening. To say that I am both nervous and...
Launch Podium, a digital content marketing service in San Francisco, is collaborating with Counterpoint Press to build an online presence for Trace and its stories. The new website www.readtrace.com is up and running! It’s been a true pleasure to work with the Launch Podium team to...
I am eager to tell you about my new book, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape , which Counterpoint Press will release on November 10, 2015. In a mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Trace explores how the...